A convenient and highly productive aminohydroxylation protocol employing an osmium-diamine catalyst

Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis

Volumn 348, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 1831-1835

  Muñiz, Kilian ^a,b   Almodovar, Iriux ^b,c   Streuff, Jan ^a,b   Nieger, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Amino alcohols; Aminohydroxylation; Diamines; Homogeneous catalysis; Osmium

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749338457     PISSN: 16154150     EISSN: 15213897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adsc.200606054     Document Type: Article

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